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Category: Web development

A grown up kind of green Jun 30. 044

After months of labour (not that kind) here at Mirashade we’ve finally done a soft launch of our latest baby; grownupgrren.

grownupgreen.org.uk

Drew and I have been hard at work on this for some time, and we’d really appreciate feedback, thoughts, comment, criticism, etc.

Of particular note is the admin system, which is glorious, but you can’t see that, so shortly I’ll post some screengrabs here for your delectation. :)

Web standards: Who cares anyway? Jun 09. 040

The Web Standards Project is asking you – do you use web standards? And who the heck are you anyway?

In the biggest survey since the WaSP’s inception, they are asking web designers and developers to tell them who they are, what they do and how they are using web standards. The goal being to gather enough data to focus the Project on the key areas affecting web professionals in their everyday work.

Take the Survey!

RSS feeds by category Jun 04. 040

Following a recent post by Brandon on devnulled.com I’ve decided that it would be beneficial to make category based RSS (and Atom) feeds available for my site.

This means that if you’re really only interested in the ‘Fireworks’ stuff then you can subscribe just to that category. More categories to come soon… :)

Note: The feed URLs above are no available.

What browsers do you develop for? Jun 03. 047

Every good web project specification document includes a list of target browsers and platforms. It’s something that I’ve been reviewing here at Mirashade, and I’m interested to know what browsers and platforms like minded developers are ‘developing’ for.

Where possible we’re refraining from developing ‘for’ Internet Explorer versions previous to 6, although we do ensure that our sites don’t become totally unusable in these.

For our most recent project we have devised the following list:

PC:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
Netscape Navigator 7.1
Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla Firefox 0.8

Mac:
Netscape Navigator 7.1
Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla Firefox 0.8
Safari 1.2

How does this compare to your browser devlopment list? Let me know…